Chapter 40: Bodyguards

( Another new alliance leader was born, thanks to the big alliance steed9527 for the support, today continues three more...... )

Cao Mo could not be contacted in Ibogu, so Kabuja was dragged to Draculamo by Abacha, and Cao Mo appointed a chauffeur and bodyguard to accompany Kabuja, one named Ayodegiosa and the other Orukujut.

The names of the two men were very awkward to pronounce in Yoruba, and in the mine, Cao Mo called one of them Ade and the other Olu.

Both of them had served in the military with the old chieftains Felician and Ovima, and had also been on the battlefield, both were in their thirties, taciturn and somewhat wooden, and they were very down-to-earth in the mines, and they had no "out-of-the-ordinary" ideas, and they were not the same kind of people as Botu and Parry, who were flexible and always wanted to do something.

Cao Mo selected people from the gold mining team to be trained as grassroots managers, and they were naturally not in Cao Mo's choice, but Owema liked the two of them very much, and married his two nieces to them early.

Ade's wife, who is also a cook in the mines, and Oulu's wife, who is a vocational education and is currently a teacher in a tribal school.

In addition to their strong physique, both of them are quite good marksmanship, and they are well-known hunters in the tribe, and except that they don't like to talk very much, they are not stupid, and they both have driver's licenses and gun licenses.

After hunting a few times, even Abba checked it and told Cao Mo that if you really want cheap bodyguards, these two people still have the potential to cultivate.

In Draculamo's foreign-owned company, the roles of driver and bodyguard are the same.

The time is too urgent, and a new batch of dispatches from Dongsheng will come the day after tomorrow, and Ade and Oulu can't be unfamiliar with the road traffic and other conditions in Draculamo.

Cao Mo asked Kabuja to stay for the past two days, and tonight he led Ade and Oulu out to eat, and drove around first, at least to have a general impression of Draculamo's main road traffic and landmark buildings.

Yang Deshan, Guo Jian, and Cao Mo all returned to Draculamo, and Listerna specially prepared a sumptuous dinner tonight, and Cao Mo directly left Abacha, who was more obsessed with Chinese food, to eat in the dormitory, and did not go out to find a high-end restaurant to entertain him.

Kanem has been under centuries of colonial rule, and with the exception of a few cities such as Draculamo, which have a slightly modern feel, most of the rest of the region is quite conservative and hierarchical.

Abacha's driver and bodyguard are not qualified to dine at the same table with them, Cao Mo doesn't care, but he doesn't want to break Abacha's rules, so he asks Sterna to prepare a table of dishes for the driver and bodyguard at his residence.

During the meal, Abacha talked about the items he recommended.

As the world's third-largest oil palm exporter, oil palm cultivation and palm oil crushing are extremely popular in Kanem – palm plantations on the outskirts of Draculamo are much larger than in Lunta.

The overall scale is large, but it cannot directly grasp the huge international market trade, the management level of large and small palm plantations and crushing plants is uneven, and the local labor cost is cheap, it will inevitably be broken.

The plantation in the northern suburbs of Dracula was recommended by Abacha and belonged to the Tubman family, a descendant of local colonists, whose eldest son was a classmate of Abacha when he was a student at Cadero, when Ojosan was a young lecturer at Oyo State College.

Little Tubman was not a hot-blooded revolutionary young man, he returned to Draculamo to inherit the family business at a young age, but the famous local playboy, who was extravagant and not good at management, had a difficult life.

The Tubman family's oil palm plantation is 2,000 acres (12,000 acres), slightly larger than the Sika family, and they also run a crushing plant.

After receiving a call from Cao Mo yesterday, Abacha spoke to Tubman Jr. on the phone, saying that the price was right, and that the Tubman family was willing to sell the mill, but the family insisted on keeping the oil palm plantation and signing a long-term supply agreement with Dongsheng Group.

Although Tubman Jr. was a loser, he still knew that he wanted to keep his family's roots and had no intention of selling the oil palm plantation directly.

After Abacha's introduction, Cao Mo could see that Yang Deshan was very satisfied with the project.

The local oil palm crushing level is backward, the land price is low, and the transfer price of a crushing plant with poor management and a stable supply of raw materials is actually very limited.

The local oil palm has a long history of planting, and the oil yield per acre of oil palm is about 200 kilograms.

The Tubman family's crushing plant, which was mainly a family plantation service, was supposed to have an annual production capacity of about 2,4500 tons.

This is still very small for Dongsheng's current annual production capacity of up to 400,000 tons of vegetable oil.

However, it was the small scale of the Tubman family and the limited investment in acquisitions and initial renovation and expansion that allowed them to take the lead in the project.

Otherwise, if they go directly to the 100,000-ton oil palm crushing project, can they still call the shots?

They were able to lead the project in the early stages, and then as they continued to sign new oil palm sources and gradually expand their production capacity, as long as they could create a steady stream of profits for the group, how could the group easily break this situation?

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Just after dinner, Abacha received a phone call and said to Cao Mo with a smile: "Little Tubman really doesn't seem to be the material for running a family business, the Tubman family has a residence on Ikoi Island, and he can't wait to invite you over......"

Shen Ji's descendant, Wang Jianzhong, was about to come over the day after tomorrow, and Yang Deshan was even more forced to negotiate a preliminary negotiation of considerable conditions, so as to seize the initiative and decide to go to the Tubman family mansion at night.

Kabuja took Ade and Oulu to familiarize themselves with the streets of Draculamo outside, and Cao Mo, Song Yuqing, Guo Jian, and Yang Deshan followed Abacha to Ikoi Island by car.

Vikoi Island is Draculamo, the island inhabited by the wealthy of Kanem, which is half an hour's drive from the West Bank Bridge and through the Salty Island District, the commercial center.

In contrast to the slums of the West Bank, which are full of messy and sewage-filled slums, the neat villas of Ikoi Island are spread under tall palms and the singing of birds and flowers, which can be said to be completely two worlds.

The island of Ikoi was a backyard built by colonial rulers for hundreds of years, with exquisite and ornate buildings abounding, and wide, silent asphalt roads stretching quietly under street lamps.

Even if the power supply on Salt Lake Island, the center of commerce and trade, is cut off, there will be an abundant supply of electricity, and the water supply is certainly not the same as that of the West Coast.

For the poor of the West Bank, this is heaven and earth.

The Tubman family's house on the island of Ikoi is a garden covering six or seven acres, and a white European-style main building stands in front of the lawn, which is quite spectacular.

According to Abacha, the Tubman family is currently operating oil palm plantations in Kanem.

Compared with the wealthy in the country, Tubman's income in Kanem is not high, but the problem is that the Tubman family, who were part of the colonists in the early years, have been operating plantations for hundreds of years, and they have also operated other industries during this period, so it is not surprising to own such a mansion on Ikoi Island for such a long time.

Little Tubman was a tall, handsome young man with a nose and high eyebrows, dark brown eye sockets, and as a descendant of the colonists, he had a lighter complexion than Abacha, and had a more pronounced Italian ancestry.

Accompanying little Tubman out of the main building to greet everyone, she was a pure European beauty, tall, wearing a long floral dress with her shoulders pinched, her breasts held high, revealing a ravine that seemed to hide endless desires, and her arrogant and cold eyes glanced at Song Yuyan with a condescending meaning, as if staring at the enemy who was invading her territory.

Little Tubman is really a romantic seed, there is such an Orumba beauty beside him, and his eyes are still glancing at Song Yuqing's side; Little Tubman is wearing a straight suit and shiny leather shoes, and when he enters the hall, he very elegantly helps Song Yuqing open the door, and there are housekeepers in white dresses and two maids standing at the door of the hall.

Yang Deshan's English level is still enough, but with Guo Jianzai, Cao Mo is also happy to be leisurely, sitting on the sofa, looking at the auditorium-style hall wall, the extravagant and exquisite, age-rich marble reliefs and the large crystal lamps hanging from the gold-plated ceiling.

Coming by car on the road, Abacha also complained that little Tubman had followed them to oppose the junta earlier, but had betrayed the revolution early, Cao Mo saw this scene in front of him now, and thought to himself, who has nothing to do with his own life?

In addition to this, the Tubman family also has a larger mansion on the plantation in the northern suburbs, so I don't know if there is such luxury inside:

This Tubman family is more generous than what Abacha said along the way!

Cao Mo couldn't help but pick up the coffee cup, stood up and admired the reliefs in the hall, and completely pushed the matter of negotiation to Yang Deshan, he didn't participate - he mainly wanted to take the opportunity to pour the coffee in his arms into the green plant pot while others were not paying attention.

Strange to say, Cao Mo's stomach doesn't seem to be suitable for coffee, usually in the dormitory mainly tea, not coffee, but the black housekeeper in a white dress, every time he comes to help everyone add coffee, he sees that the coffee in his cup does not understand, and he shows a very hurt look, Cao Mo thinks that it is better to pretend to drink it.

"Brother, how can you continue to do nonsense?"

Cao Mo was standing on an oil painting on the side wall of the door of the small hall, secretly peeking at the black butler and not taking his attention away, so that he could pour the coffee onto the root of the dragon's blood tree under the oil painting, but he didn't want a young girl to break out of the small hall angrily and knock over the coffee cup in his hand.

The young girl didn't pay attention to the coffee spilling Cao Mo's body, and shouted angrily at little Tubman: "Brother, do you have to lose the family's property little by little before you are willing?

Cao Mo held the empty coffee cup, thinking that it seemed that now was not the time to reason with this girl and ask for an explanation, but it was a pity that he had only worn a straight shirt for a day after he bought it!

"I'm sorry," little Tubman awkwardly walked over to apologize to Cao Mo, and whispered a rebuke to the girl in Yoruba, "Stari, the guests are here, don't you be so unreasonable?"

The girl Stari looked eighteen or nineteen years old, perhaps older, with fair skin, a high nose, deep eyes, and thick tan hair, and it was almost impossible to tell the local Yoruba blood.

The girl was angry, and had no intention of apologizing to the Chinese who came to talk about buying the family business, and argued eagerly with little Tubman in Yoruba.

Cao Mo could only sit back on the sofa innocently, but fortunately, Song Yuqing thoughtfully took out a tissue and wiped the coffee stains for him.

"What are they talking about?" Yang Deshan knew that Cao Mo Yoruba should be very fluent, and asked in Chinese in a low voice.

Little Tubman switched to Yoruba to talk to the girl, probably not wanting to reveal too many secrets.

Cao Mo glanced at Abacha, who shrugged indifferently, and had no intention of exposing the fact that Cao Mo could speak Yoruba - Cao Mo shrugged at Yang Deshan and said in Chinese: "They talk too fast, I learned a little bit of Yoruba, where can I understand what they are saying?"

Seeing that Cao Moming was reluctant to speak, Yang Deshan pinched his brows, so that he couldn't show the annoyance in his heart.

Little Tubman finally persuaded the girl, and when the girl left angrily, she walked back and apologized to everyone in English: "My wayward sister is always so frizzy and impulsive - the mill was built by my father before his death, and she always felt that it had a special meaning and opposed the sale, so it was difficult to persuade her not to upset the guests again......

"Mr. Yang, you're almost done, go directly to the field tomorrow?" Cao Mo asked Yang Deshan.

Yang Deshan nodded, and the others stood up to say goodbye to little Tubman.

Abacha was naturally staying at the hotel in Draculamo, and he specially told Cao Mo that it was still early.

It's eleven o'clock, it's still early?

Abacha still has the serious appearance of an official in Lonta, and he is about to let himself go when he runs to Draculamo?

Although Draculamo definitely has no shortage of beauties, such as the Europa beauty next to little Tubman, and his sister Starry, who is puffing like a pepper, Draculamo's night club......

I'm sorry, Cao Mo didn't have the heart to mess with Abacha at all.

Cao Mo yawned, signaling that she was too tired and that she would go to the plantation with little Tubman early tomorrow morning to see the oil palm mill......